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Symmetry breaking operator for the reductive dual pair $(\mathrm{U}_l,\mathrm{U}_{l'})$

Representation Theory 2023-12-12 v1

Abstract

We consider the dual pair (G,G)=(Ul,Ul)(G,G')=(\mathrm{U}_l,\mathrm{U}_{l'}) in the symplectic group Sp2ll(R)\mathrm{Sp}_{2ll'}(\mathbb{R}). Fix a Weil representation of the metaplectic group Sp~2ll(R)\tilde{\mathrm{Sp}}_{2ll'}(\mathbb{R}). Let G~\tilde{G\,} and G~\tilde{G'} be the preimages of GG and GG' under the metaplectic cover Sp~2ll(R)Sp2ll(R)\tilde{\mathrm{Sp}}_{2ll'}(\mathbb{R})\to \mathrm{Sp}_{2ll'}(\mathbb{R}), and let ΠΠ\Pi\otimes\Pi' be a genuine irreducible representation of G~×G~\tilde{G\,}\times\tilde{G'}. We study the Weyl symbol fΠΠf_{\Pi\otimes\Pi'} of the (unique up to a possibly zero constant) symmetry breaking operator (SBO) intertwining the Weil representation with ΠΠ\Pi\otimes\Pi'. This SBO coincides with the orthogonal projection of the space of the Weil representation onto its Π\Pi-isotypic component and also with the orthogonal projection onto its Π\Pi'-isotypic component. Hence fΠΠf_{\Pi\otimes\Pi'} can be computed in two different ways, one using Π\Pi and the other using Π\Pi'. By matching the results, we recover Weyl's theorem stating that ΠΠ\Pi\otimes\Pi' occurs in the Weil representation with multiplicity at most one and we also recover the complete list of the representations ΠΠ\Pi\otimes\Pi' occurring in Howe's correspondence.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2312.05546,
  title  = {Symmetry breaking operator for the reductive dual pair $(\mathrm{U}_l,\mathrm{U}_{l'})$},
  author = {M. McKee and A. Pasquale and T. Przebinda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.05546},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

37 pages. The present paper subsumes and extends section 7 of the (unpublished) preprint arXiv:1405.2431

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